Group running day cancelled.... Category 3 cyclone to blame. Best get ready then, for the rough season ahead, and fit the snowplow that comes with the railtruck. For those contemplating a similar alteration, I found it easier to leave the stay bars attached at the frame end, and unclip them at the plow end, also loosening off the top screws of the plow on the frame where they join.
Beddhist said:
Damned sight better than the open grill one will, that's for sure. 8) 8)
Picture added to post #133. 8) 8) 8) (Snow goggles for photo!)
Fun day planned for Sunday week, the Wellington Garden Railway Group, and other invited guests, are coming around for the Annual Taita Gorge Sprints (for Climax, and other geared locos), the inaugural Goose Shoot (for railtruck critters, and similar contraptions), and BBQ, with necessary beverages. Other visiting stock not excluded.
Well, the 'new' sidings (pointwork and first railsets) went in last night. Easy job, done before my wife could heat up the Seafood Chowder we had for dinner. The points were recycled from the triangle... I've found that after the big extension of last year, that it was hardly being used. I'll do some photos at the weekend. 
Gavin Sowry said:
Now, a weather forecast prediction.... another drought breaker.
How do I know this? Well, it always rains when it is my turn to host, as well as the fact that I've got things running sweet, with new isolating sections, and two new sidings going in tonight (so we can hold visiting stock, isolated without having to remove it so others can run).
If we don't talk about the weather, it will go away..... won't it?
Here's the start of one of the new sidings. Climax 1203 is conveniently hiding the 'missing' track. Went to bid on the necessary on Trade Me (translation; NZ version of E-bay), but it went just as I logged on. The same seller though, let go an Aristo Train Engineer for a price I couldn't refuse, and good bye Basic TE (off to grandson's HO layout, that). 1203 in the photo is running under the new TE control, boy it's great to get a control response without having to walk back closer to the receiver, or touch the aerial on the rail. 
trammayo said:
trammayo said:Thanks Gavin. So there is hope for a dinosaur like me
I shall keep a lookout!
Was doing some railway rules recertification a month or three ago, and the Instructor was doing introductions blah blah..... and this is Gavin, he's a dinosaur! (As in, I started in the job before he did, and he is retiring this year).
trammayo said:
Lovely warm Autumn day in the Colonies, so, one lays up in the Shady Rest to watch trains go by, with the TE in one hand, and the amber fluid in the other. Then, by crikey, that scene is worth a photo. The joys of being able to just sit, and relax, and have trains respond to controls... such bliss.
